Tuesday 24 November 2015

The hottest white dwarf in the Galaxy

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Astronomers have identified a dying star and intergalactic gas entering the Milky Way.
via Science Daily
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Mars once had a moderately dense atmosphere

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Scientists suggest that 3.8 billion years ago, Mars might have had only a moderately dense atmosphere. The scientists have identified a photochemical process that could have helped such an early atmosphere evolve into the current thin one without creating the problem of 'missing' carbon and in a way that is consistent with existing carbon isotopic measurements.
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Mars to lose its largest moon, Phobos, but gain a ring

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Mars' largest moon -- one of only two in our solar system moving inward towards its planet -- will eventually be torn apart by tidal forces and distributed in a ring around the planet, a study of the cohesiveness of Phobos has concluded. This would take about 10-20 million years, and the ring will persist for up to 100 million years before the dust falls into Mars' atmosphere and burns up as 'moon' showers.
via Science Daily
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Blue Origin’s Rocket Launches, and Lands

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Jeffrey Bezo’s company sent a rocket more than 100 kilometers in the air, which then fired its engines and returned to the launchpad.










via New York Times

New Knowledge Transfer website to grow CERN’s industry links

Previous successful Knowledge Transfer enterprises have helped to develop several useful technologies, such as these photonic crystals, which glow when high-energy charged particles pass through, and are used for medical imaging (Image: CERN)

CERN’s Knowledge Transfer Group has just launched a new tool to encourage CERN researchers and businesses to share their technologies, ideas and expertise.

It’s hoped that by facilitating these exchanges the tool will inspire new ways to apply CERN technologies commercially, to help benefit industry and society.

Interested organizations including small-to-medium sized businesses specially, research centres, large industrial organizations and universities, can subscribe to the website here, and download a KT newsletter.

The newsletter will include up to date information on the technologies generated at CERN and their potential uses and benefits in the subscribers’ business sector.

In turn, organizations will then be able to share their particular interests related to CERN technologies and expertise.

There are already many successful enterprises which exist due to CERN’s Knowledge Exchange network.

For example, data generated by the CERN-developed software Fluka, is now integrated into the patient cancer treatment planning system implemented by Ray Search Laboratories in Sweden. There are also several start-ups including Terabee in France, which uses co-developed sensor technology from CERN for indoor drone navigation. And  TIND in Norway, which develops software solutions around CERN Invenio technology, and counts among its customers CalTech, the Max Planck Institute and the United Nations.


via CERN: Updates for the general public
http://home.cern/about/updates/2015/11/new-knowledge-transfer-website-grow-cerns-industry-links

Aurora over Clouds

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Space, the Frontier Right in Front of Us

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Art, architecture and music were altered by the idea that space is not just a void, but an aesthetic force of its own.










via New York Times

A Century Ago, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Changed Everything

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The equation that describes fundamental workings of the universe is as compact and mysterious as a Viking rune.










via New York Times

Call for media: LISA Pathfinder launch

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LISA Pathfinder, ESA’s technology demonstrator for detecting gravitational-waves, is set for launch on 2 December at 04:15 GMT (05:15 CET) on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Media representatives can follow the launch online and attend the event in ESA’s operations centre, ESOC, in Darmstadt, Germany.


via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Call_for_media_LISA_Pathfinder_launch